039_ What’s The Difference Between Giving-up & Surrender?

In today’s episode, we’re addressing  another topic one of you ask us to discuss. 
We talking about the difference between giving-up and surrender. 

Surrender is a way of living in harmony with life, just as it is. Accepting that whatever is happening holds a gift for us. It’s happening. Surrendering is going with the natural flow. 
Surrendering is choosing to look at the situation from a place of love.

Surrender is saying YES to life just as it is.  When we surrender, we stay open. 

If we find resistance, surrendering is seeing even that resistance as an opportunity to turn inward — to look at beliefs and expectation we hold and to find a place of peace inside that lets as accept the actuality of now. It is letting go of our expectation and beliefs that say something different ‘should’ be happening. It isn’t. So surrendering into accepting is the first order of business to live in the flow of life — and ultimately to enjoying each present moment — to be happy no matter what. It is freeing and joyful. 

Giving-up is saying NO to life. It is saying I will not accept this. It’s saying I’m not going to learn anything. When we give-up, we hold tight to our pain or grievance and we close ourselves off from seeing and experiencing all other possibilities life might be bringing our way.
If we cling to our belief that something needs to go a certain way, we give up choices. It in-prisons us to that thing we’re giving up. It, or they, become something where we won’t let love in. And we drag that resistance into the next present moment, and so on...

Giving-up is withhold our life force hostage to resistance. Giving-up sets up a pattern of self-justifying that we perpetuate in next situation, etc. 

Giving-up is really holding on. We have to continue to  justify our choice to give-up on parts of our life. It saying that surrendering won’t look action-wise. We might take exactly the same actions in a situation. But with surrender is staying open, rather than cutting ourselves, and the others involved from  all other possible. 

Surrender includes moments where we just give up the fight with our should’s. We give-up the ‘have-to’ so we let life flow in a way that is meant for us. It is surrendering to the tides of our life force — sometime, that means pausing and resting and not pushing a should agenda. Then being patient. Life is flowing. If we’re meant to do something, when we’re living in surrender, the wave of joy that lets us move from acceptance and love.
We choose to trust life and surrender to its flow in joy.

Hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we enjoy bringing it to you.
Have a yummy week and a yummy day!!!